SuburbanAdventure

Tom Leitz, Joe Naylor, Nick Grammicioni and myself had an intervention with Bill over him wearing crocs in camp. This was our key tool:
more cat pictures

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Todd Warner plays racket ball with a bowling ball and a waffle iron.
-Kevin Ott

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Kevin Ott was charged with the onerous challenge of coming up with a game to showcase diversity.  My recommendation was charades but was shot down as everyone would probably yell “mute!”  So, we hit the web and found Hispanic American Success Stories Bingo. Salvation.

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I’ve spent most of the day watching three co-workers practically ripping their hair out over the process of selecting a spa at which to de-stress themselves.  That’s an absolutely genius business model, like having an anxiety attack choosing a therapist or being moved to tears selecting a grief counselor.

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Joe Naylor was in Totem whining about Scout socks when Mike Kramer stated the following:
Mike: You’re probably looking for sympathy from me; you will find none here.   But I will tell you where you can.  It’s in the dictionary, between “shit” and “syphilis”.
Well played Mr. Kramer, well played.

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I normally don’t revel in the failed translations of others having butchered a number of languages, but this was simply too good.  Lets see if the topic gets my own blog banned by my work’s IT guys.  Anyway, Wired.com, the intrepid reporters they are, covered a Japanese Entertainment…. yes, Entertainment convention and covered such important [...]

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As you may have noticed, I’ve switched my commenting platform from wordpress to Disqus.  Disqus a couple things (more at Disqus.com)

Lets you guys add  multimedia to response
Develops a history of comments that follows users across sites (which’ll come in use when I add new types of content
Permits users to pop in and drop comments without [...]

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Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone–a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America but that still offends those who know eating in public is offensive. … Eating on the street–even when undertaken, say, because one is between [...]

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It has literally be five months since anyone has gone food shopping.  We’d consumed just about everything to the point where I was marinading 4 month old venison  in Italian dressing and Arby’s Horsey Sauce to serve with broccoli florets emancipated from a solid block of ice.  Today that ended.  And it was good.  [...]

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Apparently my site is built on a burial ground of some sort.  TWiT discussed the Internet Archive and their book scanning efforts shuffled into openlibrary.org (which is just an amazing effort to index all that has been written, Brewster Kahle’s behind it, it will happen).  Anyway, I waybackmachined SuburbanAdventure and found this beast from 2002.
 The [...]

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